1961 Cuba (failed)

1968-72 Vietnam

1973 Chile

1991 Haiti

2011 Libya

2011 Syria (ongoing)

2014 Ukraine

Arming terrorists

Operation Cyclone

[From 1984 to 1994, under the auspices of USAID (frequently a front for CIA activities), the University of Nebraska-Omaha printed textbooks for Afghan schoolchildren promoting militant Islamist teachings and hatred for the Soviets. Ronald Roskens, the president of the University of Nebraska system from 1977 to 1989 (throughout nearly all of Operation Cyclone), may have had a hand in this, especially considering his appointment as USAID director under George H.W. Bush in 1990. The article Washington Post, "BUSH PICKS NEBRASKA EDUCATOR TO HEAD AID", 1989/11/02 indicates that he did have a role in the USAID initiative. Roskens was also implicated in the Franklin child sex ring, which was used for CIA blackmail operations.][8]

Iran-Contra

Operation Gladio B

Drug trafficking

Gladio stay-behind

[As part of Operation Gladio, the CIA established fascist undergrounds in European countries, with the purpose of maintaining a CIA/NATO presence against "communism" (i.e. any form of left-wing politics). The political and intelligence apparatuses of many of these countries was infiltrated through the placement of CIA assets, establishing front organizations, and blackmail. Permindex, whose board included JFK assassination conspirator Clay Shaw, was likely one of these CIA fronts for Gladio operations. Italian news articles in the late 1960s implicated it in a CIA-backed assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle. Blackmail was an even darker side of Gladio, leading to the establishment of elite child sex rings similar to those in the United States (such as Franklin). The Dutroux affair in Belgium was the most notable case of a Gladio-connected child sex ring being exposed, although the elite connections were largely covered up. It provided a brief look at Belgium's much larger fascist network established as part of Gladio, with links to organized crime, US intelligence services, and private contractors like Wackenhut.]

Drone program

Domestic operations

Operation Mockingbird

Mind control experiments

Drug trafficking

Sexual blackmail

Sexual blackmail likely began as a subproject of the mind control programs, with one of the initial aims being to compromise foreign and domestic leftists (as stated by Roy Cohn, one of the early pioneers of such an operation).

Russian hacking

[Still not entirely clear whether the CIA's reports of Russian hacking in the 2016 election are legitimate or fabricated to increase tensions with Russia. The CIA has a history of covert operations to push back Russian influence, and has developed tools (see Vault 7) for disguising their hacks as the work of foreign governments by appropriating malware signatures and techniques. On the other hand, a number of domestic and foreign intelligence services confirm the CIA's claims, and it's unknown if the CIA has enough clout to perpetuate such a far-reaching lie. Until better evidence surfaces, the legitimacy of the Russian hacking allegations is up in the air.]

Role in the Enterprise

Arms and drugs

Election fraud

There are many signs of CIA involvement in US election rigging. CIA operatives and associates consistently show up behind the development, adoption, and control of electronic voting, the primary means of election fraud in the modern era:

In 1964, only a year after the JFK assassination, the major media outlets (all infiltrated by the CIA) set up News Election Services (NES), an election reporting consortium with the ability to control the vote count (by reporting whatever results they wanted, and colluding with local officials and private contractors).

Meanwhile, the Omaha World-Herald acquired a substantial stake in AIS (predecessor to ES&S) during the 1980s. The World-Herald's publisher at the time was Harold Andersen: a personal friend of George H.W. Bush (longtime CIA insider), State Department advisor for overseas democracy building, and potential media control asset under Operation Mockingbird. Andersen was also compromised by the CIA due to his role as a child molester in the Franklin scandal.

Global Election Systems hired embezzler Jeffrey Dean into a key position, which he leveraged to add GEMS backdoors facilitating local election theft. He may have also been involved in writing software patches for the suspect 2002 Georgia election. Dean stole from the politically-connected Seattle law firm Culp, Guterson & Grader, but was protected from prosecution for failure to make restitution and was elevated in the elections industry. It's suspected that some of the partners at CG&G were crooked and decided to use Dean for their own ends. One of the partners at CG&G was Egil Krogh, the infamous Watergate figure who was likely a CIA asset dating back to his time with Dr. Roy Prosterman in Vietnam.

Several cocaine traffickers from the Iran-Contra era have become election insiders. Ken Hajjar, a Londonderry NH resident busted in 1987, became the sales and marketing director at LHS Associates. John Elder, the prison buddy and business partner of Jeffrey Dean, helped connect Dean to Global Election Systems and later went on to lead their ballot printing plant. Hank Asher, whose ties to the CIA are the most likely, ran DBT, used for the 2000 Florida election felon purge, and TLOxp, a data mining company hired by GOP election rigging company SmarTech.

Adnan Khashoggi, an Iran-Contra arms dealer also involved in the drug trade, has multiple connections to suspect elections. Theresa LePore, designer of the infamous butterfly ballot that helped swing the 2000 Florida election to Bush, was a flight attendant on Khashoggi's private planes during the 1980s. Replicas of the butterfly ballot were later sold by Triad GSI, an election contractor that rigged tabulators in the 2004 Ohio election to assure Bush's victory. "Triad" is a name used by many of Khashoggi's front companies during the early 1980s around Palm Beach FL; Triad GSI was founded during that same time and in that same area.

All of this suggests that the CIA plays a pivotal role in determining the outcome of US elections.

Assassinations

Human trafficking

Several human trafficking networks and sex ring scandals have been linked to the CIA, including:

Political connections

Politicians

George H.W. Bush - recruited into the CIA early in his adult life, used the Texas oil business as a cover, accused of involvement in the JFK assassination, led the Iran-Contra covert network, his intelligence circle likely had a role in 9/11

Security contractors

Universities

Yale University - home to the Skull and Bones secret society whose members include Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.

Harvard University - site of mind control experiments conducted on Ted Kaczynski

Michigan State University (MSU) - worked as a CIA front for propping up the South Vietnamese government; home to protected pedophile activity, as seen in the Larry Nassar case in 2018; allegedly a site for illicit human experiments, which has become more plausible in 2018 given the corruption of its medical department revealed in the fallout of the Larry Nassar cover-up; alma mater of John Ramsey

Money laundering

Operation Gladio B

"In the early 1990s, Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, had surveyed the offshore oil potentials of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the entire Caspian Sea Basin. They estimated the region to be “another Saudi Arabia” worth several trillion dollars on today’s market. The US and UK were determined to keep that oil bonanza from Russian control by all means. The first target of Washington was to stage a coup in Azerbaijan against elected president Abulfaz Elchibey to install a President more friendly to a US-controlled Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, “the world’s most political pipeline,” bringing Baku oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean.

At that time, the only existing oil pipeline from Baku was a Soviet era Russian pipeline that ran through the Chechen capital, Grozny, taking Baku oil north via Russia’s Dagestan province, and across Chechenya to the Black Sea Russian port of Novorossiysk. The pipeline was the only competition and major obstacle to the very costly alternative route of Washington and the British and US oil majors.

President Bush Sr. gave his old friends at CIA the mandate to destroy that Russian Chechen pipeline and create such chaos in the Caucasus that no Western or Russian company would consider using the Grozny Russian oil pipeline."

"The CIA used a dirty tricks veteran, General Richard Secord, for the operation. Secord created a CIA front company, MEGA Oil. Secord had been convicted in the 1980s for his central role in the CIA’s Iran-Contra illegal arms and drugs operations.

In 1991 Secord, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, landed in Baku and set up the CIA front company, MEGA Oil. He was a veteran of the CIA covert opium operations in Laos during the Vietnam War. In Azerbaijan, he setup an airline to secretly fly hundreds of bin Laden’s al-Qaeda Mujahideen from Afghanistan into Azerbaijan. By 1993, MEGA Oil had recruited and armed 2,000 Mujahideen, converting Baku into a base for Caucasus-wide Mujahideen terrorist operations.

General Secord’s covert Mujahideen operation in the Caucasus initiated the military coup that toppled elected president Abulfaz Elchibey that year and installed Heydar Aliyev, a more pliable US puppet. A secret Turkish intelligence report leaked to the Sunday Times of London confirmed that “two petrol giants, BP and Amoco, British and American respectively, which together form the AIOC (Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium), are behind the coup.”"

"Saudi Intelligence head, Turki al-Faisal, arranged that his agent, Osama bin Laden, whom he had sent to Afghanistan at the start of the Afghan war in the early 1980s, would use his Afghan organization Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) to recruit “Afghan Arabs” for what was rapidly becoming a global Jihad. Bin Laden’s mercenaries were used as shock troops by the Pentagon and CIA to coordinate and support Muslim offensives not only Azerbaijan but also in Chechnya and, later, Bosnia.

Bin Laden brought in another Saudi, Ibn al-Khattab, to become Commander, or Emir of Jihadist Mujahideen in Chechnya (sic!) together with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. No matter that Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi Arab who spoke barely a word of Chechen, let alone, Russian. He knew what Russian soldiers looked like and how to kill them."

"One of the major architects of Brzezinski’s Islamic Arc of Crisis strategy in 1979 and after was a career senior CIA Middle East specialist, Graham E. Fuller, a specialist in “Islamic extremism,” also known as political Islamic Jihadism. In 1999, Fuller wrote a policy paper for the RAND Corporation, a Pentagon-linked think tank, in which he stated, “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Russians. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia [author’s emphasis—F.W.E.].”4"

"With the chaos after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the beginning of the 1990s, the CIA rushed into the newly independent Central Asian republics to immediately establish their presence, using as their proxy the veterans of the Afghan Mujahideen wars. They flew Mujahideen Jihadists into Azerbaijan to get control of the government for US and British oil companies.5 They brought Mujahideen into Chechnya and the former Soviet Caucasus to wreak terror and chaos there to block a Russian-Azeri oil pipeline and weaken a struggling Russia in the Yeltsin era.

Less known, they also brought their Mujahideen Holy War veterans into Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and even inside the borders of China’s largely Muslim Xinjiang Province. Graham Fuller’s proposal was being secretly implemented against China."

"The CIA’s main tool to spread Islamist ideology in all the key Central Asian regions, including in Xinjiang, after the Cold War was a reclusive Turkish former Imam named Fethullah Gülen.

The CIA’s Graham E. Fuller was a main “sponsor” of Gülen. Fuller and former CIA agent and US Ambassador to Turkey Morton Abramowitz enabled Gülen to obtain permanent residence in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, over the objections of the US State Department, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security.10 The lawyers from the State Department at that court hearing even claimed Gülen had ties to and was financed by the CIA as reason for denying him US residency.11 Gülen’s organization, like most of the political Jihadist organizations backed by the CIA since the Mujahideen in the 1980s, was also alleged to finance its vast empire by dealing in the distribution of Afghanistan heroin.12"

"It is supported by certain US authorities here because of the operations in Central Asia, but what they have been doing since late 1990s is actually radical Islam and militarizing these very, very young, from the age 14, 15, by commandoes they use, and this is both commandoes from Turkish military, commandoes from Pakistani ISI in Central Asia and Azerbaijan. After that they bring them to Turkey, and from Turkey they send them through Europe, to European theaters of action and elsewhere.14"

"The Gülen Movement founded madrassas in the 1990s, mostly in the newly independent Turkic republics of Central Asia and Russia. Gülen’s Central Asian madrassas were used as training schools for al Qaeda and served as a front for undercover CIA and US State Department officials operating in the region.15"

Venezuela subversion

"Additionally, Bush 41 helped control the flesh squads, used it as rewards for insiders and as blackmail against those who wanted to take an independent course but whom he had photograped sinning. Amongst the circle of pedophiles that DeCamp exposed was Harold W. Andersen, then the owner-manager of the Omaha World Herald, and chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee (1979-1996) who lunched frequently with Bush 41. Bush, Andersen, and Singlaub were all active in Iran-Contra and funding the death squads in Central America to suppress all worker and civil liberties. (See also Inside the League by by Jon Lee Anderson before he became a writer for The New Yorker.) Andersen remained chairman, CEO and publisher of OWH through 1989, but continud to maintain an influential role in its operations. DeCamp's evidence is overwhelming, and, like so many unknown tales of domestic covert operations, it is laced with a dozen or so dead bodies of those who interfered with progress. I had put off reading DeCamp's book for years, and now I know why I did so. DeCamp was supposed to have been hit, but an opportunity arose to kill his essential chief investigator who had just discovered evidence that would expose the operation by itself, so DeCamp was spared. Before joining McCarthy & Co., Hagel was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Council (PSC) in Washington, D.C. under Bush 41, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations (G-7 Summit) and President and Chief Executive Officer of the World USO. Shortly afterward leaving the PSC, he took over as Chairman of ES&S (then called AIS). So the mystery of why the press, but especially why the OWH did not expose Hagel has been explained to my satisfaction."

"All of which brings me to a singular weakness of Fitrakis' marvelous article. Do you recall that the USGIC-laden SAIC has been called upon to investigate the integrity of the electoral process in Maryland? If not, re-read that paragraph. Bob never tells us what "SAIC" stands for. Well, I'm not really a full-blown conspiracy theorist. I believe in coincidence. I am finishing Eva Golinger's The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela, and by coincidence I came upon a passage that prompted me to want to know who ran Science Applications International Corporation because the group had been instrumental in faciliating an anti-Chavez December 2002 strike that threatened to topple the government. What caught my eye was the means that SAIC used to sabotage the state-owned oil company on which Venezuela depended for its revenues, PDVSA, but I figured it was only a coincidence that the mechanisms used by SAIC paralled those used to hack USA domestic voting machines.

> The high-level managers and other workers in PDVSA who joined the strike not only violated their own contracts, but also made it impossible for supplemntal workers to access codes and authorized areas in order to run the refineries and other industry operations. INTESA, a little known but strategically imporant venture between a US company with CIA ties, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and PDVSA, played a key role in crippling Venezuela's oil industry.> > INTESA, the information and technology enterprise that was formed to run all electronic opeations at PDVSA and to upddate many of the older, analog systems, not only promptly joined the strike, but also intentionally sabotaged essential equipment and networks necessary to run the industry. From remote locations, INTESA employees altered access codes and programming, making it impossible for remaining PDVSA workers to run computers, machines, and refinery equipment. As a result, Venezuela's oil producion was brought to a halt, adn the losses were devastating. (pp.102-103)"

Grau García Hernández & Mónaco, "Llegaron al país 933 toneladas de medicinas", 2019/02/14: "The Minister for Health, Carlos Alvarado, yesterday supervised the arrival of 933 tons of medical supplies in the port of La Guaira, coming from agreements with Cuba, China, and direct purchases with countries that did not join the blockade against Venezuela, promoted by USA. "Complying with the instruction given by President Nicolás Maduro to optimize the distribution of medicines in the health network, 64 containers with different types of medications were received," Alvarado said."

DEBKAfile report on 2011/08/15 that NATO and Turkey preparing for war - "NATO headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command are meanwhile drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm the rebels with weapons for combating the tanks and helicopters spearheading the Assad regime's crackdown on dissent. Instead of repeating the Libyan model of air strikes, NATO strategists are thinking more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers for beating back the government armored forces."

Brazil subversion

Operation Mockingbird

"The New York Times. The Agency’s relationship with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set by Sulzberger—to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible."

"When Newsweek waspurchased by the Washington Post Company, publisher Philip L. Graham was informed by Agency officials that the CIA occasionally used the magazine for cover purposes, according to CIA sources. "It was widely known that Phil Graham was somebody you could get help from," said a former deputy director of the Agency. "Frank Wisner dealt with him." Wisner, deputy director of the CIA from 1950 until shortly before his suicide in 1965, was the Agency's premier orchestrator of "black" operations, including many in which journalists were involved. Wisner liked to boast of his "mighty Wurlitzer," a wondrous propaganda instrument he built, and played, with help from the press.) Phil Graham was probably Wisner's closest friend. But Graharn, who committed suicide in 1963, apparently knew little of the specifics of any cover arrangements with Newsweek, CIA sources said."

"Information about Agency dealings with the Washington Post newspaper is extremely sketchy. According to CIA officials, some Post stringers have been CIA employees, but these officials say they do not know if anyone in the Post management was aware of the arrangements."

Wealthy people buying and running newspapers is a well-established practice. And fortunes have been made founding the old print media, including by such newspaper moguls as William Randolph Hearst. It's just that there are a lot more billionaires these days, with asset prices inflated as they have been since the global money-printing orgy started in 2008. The print media may be in a death spiral, but some of their online versions have a large and growing readership, though they might still lose money. And a little red ink may well be worth the price to influence the debate."

University influence

"The nature of the relationship between the CIA and the academic community is best seen in a 1968 memo from Dr. Earl C. Bolton who, while serving as Vice President of the University of California at Berkeley, was secretly consulting for the CIA. The memo, widely circulated among U.S. universities, advises the use of duplicity and deception to hide CIA connection to the campuses."

"From 1955-59, Michigan State University had a $25 million contract with the CIA to provide academic cover to five CIA agents stationed in South Vietnam who performed such jobs as drafting the government's constitution, and providing police training and weapons to the repressive Diem regime. The constitution included a provision requiring the South Vietnamese to carry voter identification cards. Citizens without such cards were assumed to be supporters of the Vietcong, and faced arrest or worse by the regime's police."

"The CIA started the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies (MIT-CIS) in 1950. By 1952, former Director of the CIA's Office of National Estimates Max Millikan became director of the center."

"In the mid 1950s, professors at MIT and Cornell launched field projects in Indonesia to train an elite of Indonesian military and economic leaders who later became the impetus behind the coup that brought Suharto to power and left over one million people dead. The elites were trained at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley by Guy Pauker who had moved there from MIT-Center for International Studies."

"In 1965, Rene Lemarchand, a nontenure professor at the University of Florida, returned from a trip to Burundi. Shortly thereafter, Justin Gleischauf, the Miami CIA station chief contacted Lemarchand, asking him for an interview. Manny Dauer, Lemarchand's department chair, advised him to cooperate fully in answering the questions the CIA had for him. Lemarchand, however, turned down the invitation."

"In 1968, George Rawick, a sociology professor at Oakland University was approached by James R. Hooker, of Michigan State University's African Studies Center for recruitment into the CIA."

"In 1968, the CIA used the Eagleton Institute for Research at Rutgers University in a plan to influence the outcome of the presidential election in Guyana. Through the Eagleton Institute, the CIA helped amend the Guyanese constitution to allow Guyanese and relatives of Guyanese living abroad to vote by absentee ballot. Then 16,000 votes were manufactured in New York City, giving the CIA's candidate, Forbes Burnham, a narrow margin over socialist Cheddi Jagan."

"Another operation involving Rutgers University was run by Political Science Department Chair, Professor Richard Mansbach, who used an undergraduate class (without the students' knowledge) as cover for a CIA project entitled the "European Non-State Actors Project" (ENSAP) in 1984."

"An October 9, 1987 memo from the Office of the Associate Dean at the University of Texas to the faculty shows how eager university officials are to cooperate with the CIA's Officer in Residence program."

"In 1986, professor Nadav Safran resigned as head of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Affairs after revealing that he secretly received payment from the CIA to write a book about Saudi Arabia and to stage a conference about the Middle East at the University."

"In 1985, an official of the Harvard Center for International Affairs was embroiled in a similar controversy when he conducted research secretly funded by the CIA."